Kirkland Performance Center November 2006 Performances
November at Kirkland Performance Center is more stuffed than a Thanksgiving turkey with our great Presented Artists: - Lingo dancetheater, Relatively Real, November 4 - Carmona Flamenco, November 10 - Peter Brook’s The Tragedy of Carmen, Seattle Opera Young Artists, November 11 - Tingstad and Rumbel, November 17 - Uncle Bonsai, November 18 - Christmas from Dublin, starring the Three Irish Tenors, November 25 & 26
Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) October 11, 2006
November at Kirkland Performance Center is more stuffed than a Thanksgiving turkey with our great Presented Artists:
Lingo dancetheater, Relatively Real, November 4 Carmona Flamenco, November 10 Peter Brook’s The Tragedy of Carmen, Seattle Opera Young Artists, November 11 Tingstad and Rumbel, November 17 Uncle Bonsai, November 18 Christmas from Dublin, starring the Three Irish Tenors, November 25 & 26 Plus, savory fare as always from our Partnered Artists:
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra premieres Jimmy Heath’s The Endless Search Part of the 2006 Earshot Jazz Festival, November 5 StoryBook Theater, The Frog Prince, November 11-19 The Comedy Underground 27TH ANNUAL SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL STAND-UP COMEDY COMPETITION, November 24 Jim French Productions Imagination Theatre™, November 27
Kirkland Performance Center presents:
Lingo dancetheater – Relatively Real
Artistic Director KT Niehoff
Date/Time: November 4, 8:00pm
Reg Price: $21 • Sr $19 • Youth $10 • Group $19
“Dancing with a voracious do or die ethic.” Seattle Weekly
The Eastside debut of a symphony of movement from the Seattle-based interdisciplinary performing ensemble. Relatively Real explores the relativity of identity and perception through androgyny, alter-ego, voice, and sound. Multi-media projections, a dynamic, mobile set and the seven athletic performers create an atmosphere of mystery and transformation.
Program includes World of Arts educational outreach.
Stanislas & Linda Julien and Kirkland Performance Center present:
Carmona Flamenco
Date/Time: November 10, 8:00pm
Reg Price: $25 • Sr $22.50 • Youth $10 • Group $22.50
In the large tablaos (cabarets) of Madrid and Sevilla, flamenco shows feature both a large cuadro (flamenco group) with group numbers and a small cuadro of soloists that perform the atraciones (attractions – featured soloists only). Carmona Flamenco has taken these attractions and modified them to feature the distillation of contemporary flamenco: the song, dance, guitar and cajon (percussion). Part of KPC’s Art of the Guitar series.
Dr. Phyllis Bagdhi, Dr. Kennan Hollingsworth and Kirkland Performance Center present:
Peter Brook’s The Tragedy of Carmen
Presented by the Seattle Opera Young Artists
Date/Time: November 11, 8:00pm
Reg Price: $22 • Sr $20 • Youth $10 • Group $20
“The opera production presented each year by Seattle Operas Young Artists Program is invariably a delight...” Pippa Kiraly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Chosen through national auditions, these singers come to study and perform with Seattle Operas Young Artists Program. They will perform a concert adaptation of Bizets world-famous opera, Peter Brooks The Tragedy of Carmen.
Steve & Mary Brown and Kirkland Performance Center present:
Tingstad and Rumbel
Date/Time: November 17, 8:00pm
Reg Price: $23 • Sr $20 • Youth $10 • Group $20
2003 Grammy Award-winning American Acoustic duo, Tingstad & Rumbel return to KPC for another melodic holiday concert. Tingstad & Rumbel established their legacy as the leading guitar and woodwind duo in the country after the immediate success of their debut album, The Gift. Imaginative and innovative, this evening performance is full of classically inspired music and holiday favorites. Part of KPC’s Art of the Guitar series.
Kirkland Performance Center presents:
Uncle Bonsai
Date/Time: November 18, 8:00pm
Reg Price: $25 • Sr $22.50 • Youth $15 • Group $22.50
If the Vienna Boys Choir had only three members and sang Woody Guthrie/Stephen Sondheimesque compositions about a guy named Doug, they might sound a little like Uncle Bonsai. Seattle folk-pop darlings Ashley OKeefe, Arni Adler and Andrew Ratshin return to KPC for a concert filled with exquisite three-part harmonies, samurai-sharp lyrics and ironic, quirky humor about hapless love, endless TV, and other wonders of the modern world.
Artist Sponsors: David Gibson, Gary & Linda Henderson
David Gibson and Kirkland Performance Center present:
Christmas from Dublin, starring the Three Irish Tenors
Date/Time: November 25, 8:00pm & November. 26, 1:00pm
Reg Price: $34 • Sr $30.50 • Youth $15 • Group $30.50
Celebrate the holidays with a genuine Irish Christmas! Direct from the Emerald Isle and filled with songs of the season such as “The Little Drummer Boy”, “Adeste Fideles”, “Silent Night” and “O Holy Night”, Christmas from Dublin is full of the warmth, charm, and music which enchants audiences throughout the world. Features The Three Irish Tenors: Ciaran Nagle and Brian Dunphy from Riverdance The Show, and Anthony Norton from La Scala Milan.
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra premieres:
Jimmy Heath’s The Endless Search
Part of the 2006 Earshot Jazz Festival.
Date/Time: November 5, 3:00pm
Reg Price: $33 • Sr $28 • Youth $22 • Group $29
NEA Jazz Master and world-renowned saxophonist/composer Jimmy Heath comes to town for the premiere of his suite for jazz big band, The Endless Search. This new work has been commissioned by the SRJO through a grant from Meet the Composer, and is written in three movements. Heath is famous as a writer and sideman for Dizzy Gillespie, J. J. Johnson, and Miles Davis, and as leader of his own group, The Heath Brothers. An event of national importance no jazz lover should miss!
StoryBook Theater presents:
The Frog Prince
Date/Time: November. 11, 11:00am & 1:00pm
November. 12, 1:00pm & 3:00pm
November. 18, 11:00am, 1:00pm & 3:00pm
November. 19, 1:00pm & 3:00pm
Reg Price: $8 • Sr $8 • Youth $8 • Group $7
StoryBook Theater opens its ninth season of musicals for very young audiences with their own wacky version of The Frog Prince. The familiar fairytale is set in the wild, wild west, where they grow things big—like cactus, frogs and promises. Princess Honey has to find a miracle to save the ranch from the clutches of the awful landgrabber, Duke. Instead she finds a very large frog. The frog offers to help—but only in exchange for a promise.
Recommended for ages 3–9 and the entire family. School matinees available – please contact Studio East at 425-827-3123 for details.
The Comedy Underground presents:
27TH ANNUAL SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL STAND-UP COMEDY COMPETITION
Date/Time: November 24, 8:00pm
Reg Price: $25 • Sr $22.50 • Youth $18 • Group $22.50
Hundreds of comedians audition each year to compete in this $15,000 event! The Comedy Underground conducts a national talent search for outstanding comedians who come to the Northwest to participate. The field gets whittled down from 30 to “The Funniest 5” who compete in the Finals on the KPC stage.
Not recommended for youths under 13.
Jim French Productions presents:
Imagination Theatre™
A Double Feature “Movie for Your Mind”
Date/Time: November 27, 7:30pm
Reg Price: $8.50 • Sr $8.50 • Youth $8.50 • Group $7.50
This is the 34th year of production for Jim French’s radio dramas. Today, French’s plays can be heard any hour of the day or night in almost every part of the world, featuring the nations best radio actors. Imagination Theatre is broadcast from over 130 radio stations in the US and Canada. Four times each year the troupe comes to KPC to record a pair of new plays.
All KPC tickets are subject to a $1.00 service fee. Senior prices apply to adults aged 62 and older and youth prices apply to anyone aged 25 and younger with valid ID. Group discounts are available to any group of 10 or more.
About Kirkland Performance Center
Kirkland Performance Center provides cultural enrichment by offering a home for the presentation, support and promotion of the performing arts. Located in downtown Kirkland, this 402-seat theatre hosts more than 250 music, theatre and dance performances each year from acclaimed regional, national and international artists. In addition to presenting performing arts, KPC conducts educational outreach programs through “A World of Arts”, a program designed to bring visiting artists into the classrooms for in-depth workshops. KPC also hosts a variety of community programs, including the King County Library Lecture Series and “Kids-at-Play,” an opportunity for students to perform in a professional setting at KPC. For more information and to review upcoming performances, please visit www. kpcenter. org.
The 2006-2007 Season is made possible in part by 4Culture, ArtsFund, The Boeing Company, Cascade Vista Convalescent Center, Conover Insurance, Evergreen Healthcare, Frontier Bank, Livingood, Fitzgerald & Alskog, Mama Lucia’s Italian Kitchen, Northwest Aerials Gymnastics & Dance, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Poncho, Software 21,Standing Ovation, Target, Univar USA, Vander Hoek Windows and Doors, Washington State Arts Commission, Woodinville Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Woodmark Hotel on Lake Washington, Western States Arts Federation and generous support from The City of Kirkland
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